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CCA senior adjunct professor Dodie Bellamy was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts for General Nonfiction

Creative collective LoveFrom has announced the launch of LoveFrom Scholarships, a new program that addresses the lack of diversity throughout creative industries, now available to prospective students at CCA.

LoveFrom, a creative collective led by Jony Ive, selected three renowned art schools to receive permanent annual funding, including CCA, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Royal College of Art.

Norling (BFA Illustration 1994) mixes his rural and urban sensibilities with found materials to create art that examines classic Americana imagery, confronting and commenting on consumerism and popular culture.

CCA will be inaugurating its brand-new M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence on April 15 with a special Climate as Praxis symposium that addresses the various ways designers can combat climate change.

Cara Levine's (MFA Sculpture 2012) exhibition Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You to Survive at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco invites the community to share grief as a part of survival.

CCA will establish the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence to support design excellence in architectural education, research, and practice with gifts from the architecture firm Gensler and the Gensler family.

Construction is underway for CCA's expansion in San Francisco. The facilities aim to be carbon neutral with net-zero energy once running, including a microgrid for the campus to harvest and store clean energy.

The Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art has recognized CCA alumni Maria A. Guzmán Capron (MFA Fine Arts 2015) and Gregory Rick (BFA Painting & Drawing 2019) for their new and innovative work.

CCA is temporarily pausing it’s curatorial practice master’s program to explore opportunities related to campus expansion and it’s connection with the internationally-recognized Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

A three-part exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts draws on the ensemble form and musical score to deliver a vision of a cacophonous community.

Will Betke-Brunswick (MFA Comics 2020) uses their illustrations to unpack topics like their mother's terminal cancer and coming out as genderqueer in their debut memoir, A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings.

CCA's graphic design students, Meredith Bond and Afreed Azad developed a new logo and collateral materials for Friends of Jackson Park’s capital campaign in support of their park redesign.

The exhibit showcases a group of artists who lived in Marin County between the 1940s and 1970s. Mariah Nielson (BArch Architecture 2005), daughter of the late artist JB Blunk, was born and raised in Marin.

CCA fashion design faculty Lynda Grose believes that a "bottom-up" or student-first perspective is at the foundation of effective teaching, and that might be a solution to engage with a challenging subject.

The new documentary No Straight Lines, co-produced by MFA Comics Chair Justin Hall, discusses the artists and the art of queer creators in the 1970s and '80s.

Hank Willis Thomas (MFA Photography, MA Visual Criticism 2003), Amy Sherald, and more star in the new season of Art21’s flagship video series.

Schools and teachers are thinking ahead when it comes to inclusive design; CCA is leading the charge by exploring the intersection of human experience and constructed environments in its Interaction Design (IxD) program.

Two collections of California artists, Robert Bechtle (BFA Fine Arts 1954, MFA Fine Arts 1958) and Tom Wudl are now part of the Archives of American Art.

Here’s how you can make hardware without ruining the planet. TL;DR: Weave sustainability into the product design as early as you can.